Francesco Acri


Francesco Acri was an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Biography

After graduating with a degree in jurisprudence at Naples in 1857 and studying Aristotle and Kant at Berlin under Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, he became a teacher of the history of philosophy, first at the University of Palermo and then, from 1871 at the University of Bologna, where he remained until 1911.
Bound to Rosminian spiritualism, he engaged in invective with the Hegelians and the positivists, in a long dispute with his predecessor in the Bolognese chair, Francesco Fiorentino.
Politically a clerical, he was elected as a city councilor in Bologna in 1895, he campaigned against divorce and for the introduction of the catechism in schools, and was also a strenuous defender of the participation of Catholics in public life.
Among his major scholarly writings, the translation and commentary on the Dialogues of Plato.
His tomb is in the Certosa di Bologna. On the stone dedicated to him, the following memorial is written:
FRANCESCO ACRI
DAL 1871 PROFESSORE ALL'UNIVERSITÀ
DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
NOBILE CUORE E ALTO INGEGNO
PADRE TRA I FIGLIUOLI E I NIPOTI SUOI
PADRE TRA GLI SCOLARI
SPECULATORE DI VERITÀ SEGUACE DI BONTÀ
AMICO DI BELLEZZA
FILOSOFO E ARTISTA
ITALIANO DI ANIMA E DI LINGUA
DEVOTO A PLATONE A TOMMASO A DANTE
DALLA FEDE
A CUI GLI PARVE FACILE CONCILIARE LA SCIENZA
IN CUI RIPOSÒ L'INTELLETTO E L'AFFETTO

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